S 2595 Re-checks Congress.gov for new actions and updates the bill's status, and fills in any sponsors, committees, or related bills that are missing. It does not re-pull sponsors/cosponsors/committees/related — those rarely change — and it skips all work if nothing has changed upstream, so it's cheap to click.
Saving the Department of Energy's Workforce Act
To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the Department of Energy, and for other purposes.
Summary
The bill establishes a moratorium on workforce reductions at the Department of Energy. Under this moratorium, which remains in effect until Congress passes full-year appropriations for the Department of Energy for fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of Energy cannot initiate or carry out any reduction in force or involuntary employee separations. The only exception to this moratorium is for involuntary separations that are based on cause—specifically for misconduct, delinquency, or performance issues. The moratorium applies to all employee categories at the department, including those in the competitive service, career excepted service, and Senior Executive Service.
AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.
Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] (D-NM)
Actions (2)
- Jul 31, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. · senate
- Jul 31, 2025 Introduced in Senate
Similar bills (6)
Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.
Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
July 31, 2025
Mr. Heinrich introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
A BILL
To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the Department of Energy, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Saving the Department of Energy’s Workforce Act”.
SEC. 2. REDUCTION IN FORCE MORATORIUM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.
(a) In General.—Until on or after the date that full-year appropriations for the Department of Energy for fiscal year 2026 have been enacted into law, the Secretary of Energy may not—
(1) initiate or implement any reduction in force at the Department of Energy; or
(2) conduct an involuntary separation of any employee in the competitive service, any career employee in the excepted service, or any career appointee in the Senior Executive Service of the Department of Energy except for cause on charges of misconduct, delinquency, or performance.
(b) Application.—For the purposes of carrying out subsection (a)—
(1) the terms “competitive service”, “excepted service”, and “career appointee” have the meanings given those terms in sections 2102, 2103, and 3132(a), respectively, of title 5, United States Code; and
(2) such subsection shall be in addition to any other authority with respect to adverse personnel actions, including chapter 75 of title 5, United States Code. <all>
Comments